Which cultural achievements occured in nothern and southern europe?

There's several, like architectural movements (gothic,romanesque). Several of the first universities in the world were created there in France, the University of Paris, in Italy, the universities of Bologna and Salerno, in England, the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge. Initially they offered careers in theology, philosophy, law and medicine, and started teaching foreign languages there too. And also literary movements

Except common history

Answerdistinguish between the mercalli scale and the richter scale;